Economics blog test[...]
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Roving General Assembly decided to go to Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank.
Proposal: Banking Reform.
Facilitator: Chris FD.
Lots of noisy people. Great weather for people to visit the riverside.
The issues of banking reform are massive and often complex. Best ‘solutions’ in one area often depend on choices made in another and can vary over[...]
Read more →After seven months on bail and an intensive five days taken in two sittings of Westminster Magistrate’s Court, the ‘Xstrata 16′ were yesterday found not guilty of behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress by disrupting work activity of global mining giant Xstrata in their London offices last November 30th.
The activists were arrested[...]
Weeks July 14 – August 4
Index
1. Olympics
a) Police assault Critical Mass during the Olympics opening ceremony in London
b) “Whose Games? Whose City?” demo organized by Counter Olympics Network
2. Direct Action. Raising awareness and empowering the 99%
a) International Network of activists held a mumble meeting to create bridges between movements[...]
From our friends at Take the Square:
Occupy/Indignados/Arab Spring is preparing a fresh new wave of gatherings, actions and campaigns.
This is a call for a meeting to communicate and discuss a common agenda, while looking for ways to interconnect our diversity of struggles, movements and moments. We are on the way of building an[...]
By July 29, 2012 Category: International working group, News No Comments 
Statement from Occupy London Press Team on events in East London tonight:
We’ll be honest: we hadn’t expected an awful lot. The run-up promised little more than an advert to help sanitise the image of some of the Olympics’ grand sponsors. We saw bread and circuses for an austerity-wrought city that feels like it doesn’t[...]
By July 28, 2012 Tags: #openingceremony, Counter Olympic Network, Critical Mass, Danny Boyle, David Beckham, IOC, LOCOG, Mile End Park, Olympics, Opening Ceremony, twitter, Whose Games? Whose City?
Category: News, Press, Statement, Upcoming Action 13 Comments
The August edition of The Occupied Times comes out next Wednesday, with a special focus on disability. We have opened up our two centre spreads to some of the best writers and most committed activists in the UK on issues of disability and serious illness. A comprehensive picture emerges of huge pressures being put on[...]
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By July 27, 2012 Tags: Debt, Disability, Occupied Times, OT
Category: News, Press releases, The Occupied Times, Working Groups No Comments
Occupy London will this Saturday 28 July join more than 40 groups protesting against the Olympics for the ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ demonstration, organised by the Counter Olympics Network.
“The Olympics are meant to be a celebration of human endeavour. However the ‘people’s games’ in London are subject to the whims of global corporations and[...]
By July 25, 2012 Tags: ArcelorMittal, BP, Bread and Circuses, Counter Olympics Network, Dow Chemical, Drop Dow Now, GamesMonitor, Greenwash Gold, HMRC, Lloyds, LOCOG, marketing, Mile End, No to G4S, Olympics, Our Olympics, Rio Tinto, Save Leyton Marshes, Space Hijackers, Stop the Olympic Missile Campaign, ticket availability, War on Want
Category: News, Press, Press releases, Upcoming Action 1 Comment
